Mikaela has always been a creative person, a daughter of a fashion designer and a ballerina. Mikaela would spend hours as a child designing dresses, drawing pictures, dancing, ice skating, roller skating, skateboarding and doing yoga with her mother.

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Circumstances did not allow her to live permanently with either parent so she lived with her grandparents. Her step-grandfather was an ex-RAF pilot who was a good draughtsman and would draw pictures of rockets and foo fighters that he'd seen during the Second World War. Her grandmother would tell her about spiritual and metaphysical phenomena such as reincarnation, ghost encounters and healing by laying on of hands.

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Mikaela's artistic training began in Fashion & Arts. After that she spent time in the Bahamas where she was mentored by artists Brent Malone & Steve Malone. She also regularly visited the Sivananda Ashram to study yoga and studied ballet & yoga with Hubert Farrington.

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Mikaela undertook private commissions until taking a break to have a child. After that she returned to college to take an Art & Design Foundation course, then went on to study Fine Art & Textile Design at Northbrook College. More recently she studied to become a yoga teacher and was the co-founder of the Brighton Yoga Festival.

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Her first visionary art was very linked to, and inspired by, her yoga. After attending a workshop with Alex & Alyson Grey at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art her style started to change. This was further developed at the Academy's Summer Seminar in Italy where she was trained in Mischtechnik by Amanda Sage and Daniel Mirante. Upon returning home she realised that the opportunities for visionary artists are few and far between in the U.K. and are totally under-represented in major art shows and galleries. This led her to start up House of Alchemy with her good friend Ra Strange.

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Website: https://www.perera.net/